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Malignant thymoma associated with liposarcoma of the mediastinum —A case report—

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Malignant thymoma occurring concurrently with mediastinal liposarcoma in a 49-year-old man is described. The patient underwent an incomplete resection of the mediastinal mass followed by irradiation therapy and additional chemotherapy. He died about 9 months after the detection of a mediastinal mass on chest X-ray films and the immediate cause of death was superior vena cava syndrome. The incidence of primary liposarcoma of the mediastinum alone is extremely rare. Only a few more than 20 with such a lesion have been docummented in Japan. A review of the literature of patients with mediastinal liposacoma and thymoma associated with malignancies revealed no case of an association of thymoma and liposacoma.

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  1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Self-Defense Forces Central Hospital, 4-2-24 Ikejiri, Setagaya-ku, 124, Tokyo, Japan

    Masanao Okumori

  2. Department of Pathology, Self-Defense Forces Central Hospital, 4-2-24 Ikejiri, Setagaya-ku, 124, Tokyo, Japan

    Motoki Mabuchi

  3. Self-Defense Forces Fuji-District Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan

    Masakata Nakagawa

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Okumori, M., Mabuchi, M. & Nakagawa, M. Malignant thymoma associated with liposarcoma of the mediastinum —A case report—. The Japanese Journal of Surgery 13, 512–518 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02469495

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